The Murder Challenge

[Kennifer]

"I hope we've chosen right today... we'll know an answer for tomorrow if not, but still..."

"If you're innocent, I'm... so sorry. It's a fifty fifty chance, and..."

/vote Selen(ium)

[PopcornPie]

"None of this would be what any of my friends wanted. I...I actually don't think I can go home anymore."

[Kennifer]

"...god I hope we guessed right on the first try with this. And if not, it's Neptune and Ctharlak for sure."

[Florien]

No. Here's how we're going to survive. We need to protect those with confirmed roles. Those are the only people we can trust to not be killers. Kanade protects herself or Entrapta. Entrapta blocks one of the so-claimed roleless. Do not specify which beforehand. 

Just do it, so that it can't be predicted. That will make sure we get as many people out as possible.

It will be over soon. You can go home, you can in time, recover from whatever horrors you saw here, if you interpret them as horrible. You will be safe. You will be free. It will not matter what happened here.

The killings were done by this moronic human who locked us here. He is the one who's condemned us to this brutal game. Do not blame yourselves for the deaths, for they were, if not inevitable, certainly not by your hands.

Lucintsea pauses for a moment, her washed-out eyes drifting as she spaces out.

I think it's about to get very interesting. We're about to know whether Selenium or Neptune is one of the killers. This is a good thing.

[Zanreo]

"I... just hope we got this right..." Neptune says.

[Florien]

You don't hope anything, Neptune. You already know whether we got this right or not. If you're innocent, you know Selenium is guilty.

[PointMaid]

Selenium looks scared. Then her... face changes? As if it's being taken over. Not taken over. Possessed. Whatever's looking out of the musician's face grins.

Your vaunted plan didn't work last night, did it. Had a few holes. Even with everybody claiming roles it's taken you this long and this much collateral damage to find even one of us. You know how I figured you out, Lucintsea? You only think about yourself. Care about yourself. Would you leave yourself open and vulnerable while protecting the nice lil' Alphas who really aren't very powerful? I really doubted it. You might possibly have done something to protect the one who could protect others, but the Alphas of course you wouldn't... I had no choice, but you? You just don't care about anything but yourself. If I'd done anything else last night, I would have immediately been toast, no question, pretty much. So sorry about your friends, Michelle... I had no other option. Entrapta... I still wish we could do a duo.

Selen(ium) starts to strum her guitar and sing softly. This one goes out to all of you...

[Kennifer]

"Neptune and Selen(ium) are the only ones who know their own alignments for sure, and thus... each other's."

"So if Selen(ium) is guilty... wonderful, we got one, and just have to figure out the other. And if not, whoever is alive in the morning votes Neptune because we'd be certain of her role then, regardless of who if anyone gets killed tonight. Right?"

[Kennifer]

(aaand ninja'd by scum lmao ignore that)

[Despair's Archon of Memes]

Selenium looks scared. Then her... face changes? As if it's being taken over. Not taken over. Possessed. Whatever's looking out of the musician's face grins.

Your vaunted plan didn't work last night, did it. Had a few holes. Even with everybody claiming roles it's taken you this long and this much collateral damage to find even one of us. You know how I figured you out, Lucintsea? You only think about yourself. Care about yourself. Would you leave yourself open and vulnerable while protecting the nice lil' Alphas who really aren't very powerful? I really doubted it. You might possibly have done something to protect the one who could protect others, but the Alphas of course you wouldn't... I had no choice, but you? You just don't care about anything but yourself. If I'd done anything else last night, I would have immediately been toast, no question, pretty much. So sorry about your friends, Michelle... I had no other option. Entrapta... I still wish we could do a duo.

Selen(ium) starts to strum her guitar and sing softly. This one goes out to all of you...

... Nothing personal to you either, Se. And... if we meet again... hopefully without the posession... Could I join in your duo with Entrapa?

[PointMaid]

Yeah. Make it a trio.

[Florien]

...I'm sorry, are you trying to insult me as you fall to your death?... Goodbye, Selenium.

Oh. We win by the way. It's a one in two chance tomorrow because there's only one killer left. The one Entrapta blocked isn't the killer if there's a death, and stalling isn't going to save the killer because we can just eliminate down the line if needed.

Welcome to our victory.

[Despair's Archon of Memes]

...I'm sorry, are you trying to insult me as you fall to your death?... Goodbye, Selenium.

Oh. We win by the way. It's a one in two chance tomorrow because there's only one killer left. The one Entrapta blocked isn't the killer if there's a death, and stalling isn't going to save the killer because we can just eliminate down the line if needed.

Welcome to our victory.

... It's beautiful... It's all going to be worth it...

Kanade begins crying tears of joy...

[Kennifer]

"It must be scary, Selen(ium), if you're not... yourself, not fully in control. I hope that Kanade is right and you manage to come back, without the possession, maybe we can meet again and I can know the real you."

Michelle smiles bitterly; her friends would be avenged and another Baka was going to be executed but seeing the possession element firsthand was... she only hoped she'd be able to sleep.

"And tomorrow... we hope Entrapta chooses the right target to block tonight so nobody dies, and then we know who to vote for. And we can all get out of here. And if someone does die, I guess whoever's left can use that information. It's either Ctharlak or Neptune."

Michelle sits on the floor, picking at a frayed bit on her jeans, just...thinking.

[PointMaid]

[evil]...I'm sorry, are you trying to insult me as you fall to your death?... Goodbye, Selenium.

Selen(ium) doesn't stop laughing.

Yes? Yes I think I am. So many wrong guesses.

[Dookie]

"Oh well, time for executions."

He gets out a gun.

*BANG*

"The end, mafia's dead."

Night Phase begins at 7:00 AM CST tomorrow. (I'm gonna also have a short hiatus).

(OOC: Sorry for phoning it in, I just kinda wanna hit that hiatus soon).

[PopcornPie]

"...The end?"

[Zanreo]

"Woah, is there possession going on here? That would explain all the killing in these games... Anyway! This... can't have been easy, Selen(ium), not being fully in control..." she says. "At least... from what I've seen, people tend to come back from these games! So let's hope for the best, fingers crossed!"

[PopcornPie]

"I don't really care. Jamie could just kill me now if he wants." She cradles Selenium's body. "Gosh, Selenium still called me her friend, even though I voted her...What a pal. She would've made a fine princess." A tear fell from her eye. Then the other one. Soon, she was sobbing quietly.

[Florien]

Excellent.

Anyway, next on the agenda, victory. If the last killer would like to make the wrong decision and surrender now... now's the time.

[PopcornPie]

This really is just a war to you, isn't it?"

[Florien]

If it were a war, I would have brought the chained army. I did not.

You seem to think that it is wrong to be like this. That's fine. The people in my town thought that in the last days before I chained them in.

I'm... happy with what I am now. I'm happy with what I seek. I'm happy with how I'll continue to change. My path is my business.

[PopcornPie]

"I'm just glad you'll be familiarizing me after this."

[Florien]

Well... not immediately. I need to figure out a way to get my army out here to append you to a chain. I don't have the personal capacity to familiarize anyone else for more than a few minutes, seven is my personal current limit.

[PopcornPie]

"I see. So is your army the only company you've had? Or your primary company?"